I've been told recently that a creature that is being cast with flash becomes an instant, I have made the argument that the card type does not change it simply can be cast anytime as though it was an instant.
If it does become an instant does the mean if I have 2 counters on my echo mage I can copy that creature when it is cast as an instant? It doesn't sound right to me but I thought I would check it out.
Your first thoughts were right. A spell or ability does what it says, no more and no less, and the Flash ability only changes the times you're allowed to cast a spell, not the types of that spell.
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Flash is a static ability that functions in any zone from which you could play the card it’s on. “Flash” means “You may play this card any time you could cast an instant.”
I hate it when people tell you thinks like that, obivously they dont know the rules very well... My guess is he played a counter instant spell card? and destroyed your ceature?
I always have my phone or tablet handy to look up rules in case this happens. Most of the time if people pull some kind of sham, it costs you the game. haha
No it wasn't that at all it was just something that a friend of mine stumbled upon someone using eye of the storm wrong. They were using it to cast creatures, but I knew this couldn't be the case because you are now creating tokens of creatures and that didn't sound right to me. He simply wanted me to ask here so I could clear it up, my guess is that if flash creatures did become instants then he had a very sick deck in mind.
If it does become an instant does the mean if I have 2 counters on my echo mage I can copy that creature when it is cast as an instant? It doesn't sound right to me but I thought I would check it out.
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I always have my phone or tablet handy to look up rules in case this happens. Most of the time if people pull some kind of sham, it costs you the game. haha